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So that M. Pasteur arrived at last at the clear 

 and definite result, that all these appearances are 

 like the case of the worms in the piece of meat, which 

 was refuted by Redi, simply germs carried by the air 

 and deposited in the liquids in which they afterwards 

 appear. For my own part, I conceive that, with the 

 particulars of M. Pasteur's experiments before us, we 

 cannot fail to arrive at his conclusions; and that 

 the doctrine of spontaneous generation has received 

 a final coup de grace. 



You, of course, understand that all this in no way 

 interferes with the possibility of the fabrication of 

 organic matters by the direct method to which I have 

 referred, remote as that possibility may be. 



